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Recap: The Best of High-Complication at Watches and Wonders 2024
Today, we are ending our series of recap articles focused on the best new watches presented during Watches and Wonders 2024 and Geneva Watch Week (we’ve looked at dive watches, chronographs, dress watches or GMT models)… And what’s better to take a look back at some of the show’s most impressive, technically advanced and innovative models? We could have listed watches like the Bovet Recital 28 or the Monaco Split-Seconds, but both made it to other lists. Here, what matters is the art of watchmaking, whether it’s about breaking records, improving an important complication or making things thinner than ever before. Here’s the best of high-complication at the 2024 Geneva week.A. Lange & Sohne Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon LumenLange's impressive triple-complication, a.k.a the Datograph Perpetual Tourbillon, isn’t really new as we’ve seen it already in platinum with a black dial and in white gold with a salmon/rose gold dial. However, th
Introducing The Parmigiani Tonda PF Micro-Rotor Full Platinum
For its 25th anniversary in 2021, Parmigiani Fleurier presented the Tonda PF collection, its own take on the luxury sports watch with integrated bracelet overseen by the recently appointed CEO – Guido Terreni – who until then was one of the key people responsible for Bulgari’s success with the Octo Finissimo. The Tonda PF was a pleasant update to the long-standing Tonda collection, with several new references launched, one more beautiful than the other. This year, Parmigiani Fleurier chose to attire its fundamental Tonda PF Micro-Rotor in precious metal highlighting “the concept of purism that guides the creative approach of Parmigiani Fleurier.” Meet the all-platinum Tonda PF Micro-Rotor.The newly released watches did the seemingly impossible – Parmigiani, a niche brand, has again been talked about as one of the leading companies offering exceptional timepieces to the great delight of its loyal fans and a much wider public. Four new models, includin
Pre SIHH 2015: Cartier comes with the Rotonde de Cartier Annual Calendar, now in 40mm (specs and price) - Monochrome-Watches
Downsizing is a trend that is clearly growing in the industry since the previous?editions of the SIHH and Baselworld. After years of watches sized over 42mm and more, large brands are coming back to more reasonable cases’ dimensions. Following this trend, Cartier updates its?Rotonde de Cartier Annual Calendar and introduces a 40mm edition, alongside the already existing 45mm version. Furthermore, this new Rotonde comes with several technical improvements.The main objective of horology had always been?miniaturization. The most demanding challenge is not to create complications but to implement them into the smallest case possible. Except when an incredible?level of technology requests a large case – like in the 48mm HYT H1 or the 47mm Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime – a watch should not be sized over 42mm or 43mm, especially when talking about a dress watch. First, it contradicts the main reason of horology. Then, it ruins two of the most important factors of the?wear
Video Review: A Closer Look at the Blue Dial IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40
Let’s get up close and personal… We have already explored the revamped IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40 in detail when it was launched in 2023, the same year that the Schaffhausen-based brand decided to give this long-lasting collection its 1976 Genta-inspired design back. More recently, what is now a strong contender in the luxury sports watch category (also known as an elegant sports watch with an integrated bracelet) got a new deep blue dial, a classic of the genre, making it possibly the best new Ingenieur Automatic yet. I am well aware a lot has been said about the collection already, and a lot will be said about this one, too, but one thing we should all agree on now is that visually, the Ingenieur looks quite amazing in classical steel and blue. So here’s our video review of this newest edition.The steel trio of IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40 introduced in 2023 in Aqua, Black and SilverThe Ingenieur has been around since the mid-1950s, but the current generation was pres
Oris Divers Sixty Five Chronograph Steel-and-Bronze (Specs & Price)
After Oris introduced the Bronze Carl Brashear Chronograph earlier in 2018, and after the brand announced teaming up with Swiss retailer Bucherer to created a new episode of the “Blue Editions”, we knew that the standard version of the Divers Sixty Five Chronograph was about to come. So end of the teasing: here is the regular production model of the Oris Divers Sixty Five Chronograph – and indeed, it still looks good in steel-and-bronze.When Oris and Bucherer introduced their shared vision of the “65 Chrono”, we wrote: “The Divers Sixty-Five is Oris' most successful collection of the last five years. An affordable, well-executed, good-looking diver with a fair amount of vintage elements, it has been praised by many - including us. What started as a stand-alone piece quickly became a full collection, with 36mm, 40mm, and 42mm models and with steel, BiCo' steel-and-bronze or full bronze versions. Last year saw the first introduction of a complication i